When Helen Katherine Keye was born on 5 March 1894, in Fargo, Cass, North Dakota, United States, her father, William Albert Keye, was 24 and her mother, Katherine Zueger, was 21. She married Arno Allen Lorshbough on 10 December 1917, in Cass, North Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Mountain View, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1935 and Rio Vista, Solano, California, United States in 1940. She died on 21 January 1979, in Half Moon Bay, San Mateo, California, United States, at the age of 84.